NEWSLETTER december 12th 2017

 

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Week of december 12th 2017

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 Focus on : Yves Gazzo
Eritrea and the increasingly multifaceted challenges in the Horn of Africa

The well-understood humanitarian aid can not be put in place in the future provided that “soft power” outweighs the “warmonger”
Eritrea: a small country closed on itself and poor
Eritrea is not the most important country of those traditionally included in the Horn of Africa: just over 6 million people, unequally distributed over 117 000 km2 for GNP per capita (less than 500 Dollars).It is highly indebted and one of the poorest countries in the world. An almost continuous flow of migrants from this country are fleeing the dictatorship of its president Issayas Afeworki in power since independence recovered in 1993.
The weak regional integration of the country, although it is a member of the African Union and the IGAD (Regional Organization based in Djibouti) is explained in part by a participation in these organizations hardly active and confirms its relative isolation.

Indeed, it also stopped cooperation with the EU and UN agencies for a while and sent foreign NGOs back in December 2011, to reconsider its decision in July 2012.

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10/23/2017. Largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, an innovative private-public initiative involving faith-based communities and government is facilitating refugees enter Europe since 2015.

The year 2015 saw an unprecedented number of refugees arriving in Europe. More than one million people were risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea with thousands perishing in perilous journeys at the hands of people smugglers.

In many European countries, large numbers of ordinary people began welcoming the newcomers. Others, however, showed resistance to the arrival of people streaming through journeys fraught with danger. In some places, fences were erected.

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